An international team of researchers, including ones from KAUST, the Guo China-US Photonics Laboratory, the University of Rochester and the University of New South Wales, has developed a technique that allows single-crystal hybrid perovskite materials to be integrated into electronics. The team stated that this achievement opens the door to new research into flexible electronics and potentially reduced manufacturing costs for electronic devices.

Challenges in integrating single-crystal hybrid perovskites into electronic devices, such as transistors, have spurred much research focus. The main challenge in incorporating single-crystal hybrid perovskites into electronics stems from the fact that these macroscopic crystals, when synthesized using conventional techniques, have rough, irregular edges. This makes it difficult to integrate with other materials in such a way that the materials make the high-quality contacts necessary in electronic devices.

Saule Technologies has been working with construction company Skanska on integrating Saules perovskite solar cells into buildings on a commercial scale . Now, it was announced that Skanska has gone through with the installation of the first big format perovskite solar panel provided by Saule Technologies, integrated into its office in Warsaw, Poland. The size of the solar panel being tested on Skanska's Spark office building is 1.3 x 0.9 meters, containing 52 photovoltaic modules.

Skanska stated that the use of perovskite technology for zero-energy buildings is the latest innovation in the developer's sustainable building strategy. Skanska is pioneering a method of covering office building exteriors with semi-transparent perovskite solar cells on a commercial scale.

Quantum Dots are used today in the display industry to enhance the quality and efficiency of LCD-based displays, most notably in TVs (one example is Samsung's premium QLED TV range). While these are still LCD displays enhanced by QDs, quantum dots also have the larger potential to create truly emissive displays (QD-LED) which could compete with OLEDs and even surpass them in quality, efficiency and ease of production.

Several companies (including Samsung, BOE, LG, CSoT and others) are indeed developing QD-LED displays (Samsung, interestingly, is preparing to kick-start hybrid QD-OLED TV pilot production next year). Apple is not left behind, and the company is already known to be looking into QD-LED technologies.

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Researchers from Arizona State University have achieved 25.4% efficiency in their tandem solar cell stacked with perovskite and silicon. This follows, and surpasses, last year's achievement of 23.6% efficiency.

The team's improvement upon the record by nearly two percentage points was reached in a joint project with researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, predicting they’ll be nearing 30% tandem efficiency within two years.

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), in collaboration with researchers from and the California Institute of Technology, have developed a way to combine silicon with perovskites to achieve higher efficiencies and lower production costs. They believe that this could lead to cheaper and more efficient solar technology.

The new way to create crystalline silicon and perovskite tandem PV cells is claimed by the team to be the simplest method of doing so.

Oxford PV, a leading developer of perovskite solar cells, has announced a new, certified, 28% efficiency world record for its perovskite-based solar cell.

Oxford PV’s 1 cm² perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell has achieved a 28% conversion efficiency, certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The achievement trumps Oxford PV’s previous certified record of 27.3% efficiency for its perovskite-silicon solar cell, announced earlier this year.

The Henn-na Hotel in Japan, a technologically advanced hotel staffed by robots, now officially features perovskite solar technology developed by Saule Technologies. The installed commercial prototype is made of 72 perovskite modules encapsulated in curved glass.

The aim of the hotel's owner is to make it electrically sustainable. Believing the perovskite solar cells may be a solution and therefore introducing it as a part of the Henn-na Hotel latest tech-solutions, it became the first hospitality facility in the world to have perovskite technology adopted.